Oscar Nedbal ( Czech Oskar Nedbal ; March 26, 1874 , Tabor - December 24, 1930 , Zagreb ) - Czech violist , conductor and composer. Uncle conductor Karel Nedbal .
| Oscar Nedbal Czech Oskar nedbal | |
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 Oscar Nedbal, 1901 | |
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| Date of Birth | March 26, 1874 |
| Place of Birth | Camp |
| Date of death | December 24, 1930 (56 years old) |
| Place of death | Zagreb |
| Buried | |
| A country |  Austria-Hungary , GHS |
| Professions | viola player , conductor , composer |
| Instruments | alto |
| Genres | , , and |
| Collectives | Czech quartet |
Biography
He graduated from the Prague Conservatory in the classes of violin and composition ( 1891 ), during the last year he studied under the direction of Antonin Dvořák . In 1892 , he was one of the founders of the Czech Quartet , in which he played the viola.
Since 1896 , Nedbal began to actively perform as a conductor, mainly with the orchestra of the National Theater. In 1902 , he himself conducted the premiere of his first ballet The Tale of Gonza ( Czech Pohádka o Honzovi ), soon staged also in Vienna under the name Stupid Hans ( German Der faule Hans ).
In 1906 , due to an affair with the wife of his friend in the Czech Quartet, Karel Hoffmann, Nedbal was forced to leave the quartet and move from Prague to Vienna. Here he left almost performing activities, founded and until 1919 led the Tonkünstler Orchestra , with which, in particular, he propagated Czech music in Austria and other countries. The Nedbal Orchestra gave weekly Sunday concerts at the famous An der Wien Theater, one of the main centers for the development of the Viennese operetta , and perhaps this prompted Nedbal to turn to this genre of musical theater: in 1910 it was released (though in Prague) the first operetta “Immaculate Barbara” ( Czech Cudná Barbora ), followed by “Polish Blood” ( German Polenblut ; 1913 ), “The Bride of the Winegrower” ( German Die Winzerbraut ; 1916 ), and The Beautiful Saskia ( German Die schöne Saskia ; 1917 ), "Erivan" ( 1918 ); “ Polish blood ” on the libretto by Leo Stein , based on the motives of the novel “Young Lady Peasant” by Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin , was especially popular.
In 1919 , after the collapse of Austria-Hungary, Nedbal returned to Prague, but did not find a permanent job there and eventually in 1923 he moved to Bratislava , where he took over as artistic director of the Slovak National Theater . Here he worked successfully until 1930 , when the outbreak of the economic crisis put the theater on the brink of bankruptcy.
Newspapers accused Nedbal of the theater’s critical situation and demanded that he pay the theater’s debt from his own funds. In a confused state of mind, he went to Zagreb to conduct the production of his ballet "The Tale of Gonza" there and threw himself out of the window of the Zagreb Theater on the evening of Christmas.
Memory
- The theater in his hometown of Tabor is named after Nedbal.
- In 2006 , the ashes of Nedbal were reburied in Prague .